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Big changes for school calendars in South Africa | SA News

Staff Writer
 ·10 Nov 2025

The Department of Basic Education has gazetted new policy changes for determining school calendars in South Africa for public comment.

The main change being implemented by the DBE is to remove all differentiation between coastal and inland schools and to formally get rid of the staggered school calendar.

South Africa has historically adopted a staggered school calendar where inland schools started a week earlier than their coastal counterparts.

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